HEMIPTERA— HETEROPTERA. 



155 



Total length : 16-3 mm., $ 19 mm. 



Upolu :— Apia : 1 30.V.1924, 1 (type), i.l925, 2 larvae, iv.l925, 1 $, 

 28. iv. 1925. 



Closely allied to the Philippine S. lurida Stal, but differs in the absence of a 

 median fuscous annulation to anterior tibiae, and in having the first segment 

 of antennae equal in length to the head. Tryon's description of S. novaeguinensis 

 9 (Fergusson Is.), except for the smaller size, agrees with the Samoan specimens 

 as does Montrouzier's meagre description of the New Caledonian S. armata, but 

 as both these descriptions could apply to several species it has been thought 

 advisable, without having seen the types, to describe the Samoan species as new 

 rather than risk an erroneous determination. 



55. Oncocephalus pacificus Kirk. 



Oncocephalus pacificus Kirkaldy, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S. Wales, XXXIII, p. 368, 1908. 

 Samoa : — 2 specimens, iii.-viii.1921 (O'Connor). 



Upolu: — Apia: 1 specimen, 30.iii.l922 and 1 specimen, 5.V.I924 (Arm- 

 strong) ; 1 specimen, x.1924 and 1 specimen, x.1925. 



These specimens agree very well with Kirkaldy \s jDoor description of 0. 

 pacificus and with Fijian examples. In some specimens the fuscous mottling 

 on the hind femora is absent and only the apical third is fuscous. This species 

 is more closely related to the Philippine 0. assimilis Renter and the N. Australian 

 0. confusus Renter than to the Mascarene 0. angulatus Rent, to which species it 

 was compared by Kirkaldy. 



Recorded only from Fiji. 



Subfamily Acanthaspinae. 

 56. Peregrlnator biannulipes (Montr, et Sign.). 



Opiscoetus biannulipes Montrouzier et Signoret, Ann. Soc. Ent. France, (4), I, p. 69, 1861. 

 Microcleptes biannulipes Stal, Kongl. Svensk. Vet.-Ak. Handl., XII, 1, p. 79, 1874. 

 Reduvius laniger Butler, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., (4), XVII, p. 411, 1876. 

 Alloeocranuni biannulipes Kirkaldy, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S. Wales, XXXIII, p. 369, 1908. 

 Peregrinator biannulipes China, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., (9), XV, p. 164, 1925. 



Upolu : — Apia : 1 specimen, x.1925. 



Recorded from Central America, Cuba, Reunion, Rodriguez, Philippines, 

 New Caledonia and Fiji ; apparently widely distributed. 



